Pigmentary degeneration of the retina and hearing disturbance.

Cho, Woo Jae

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1965;6(2):49-53.

Pigmentary degeneration of the retina and hearing disturbance.

Woo Jae Cho

The Eye Department, The National Medical Center, Korea.

강막색소변성증과 (綱膜色素變性症) 청력장해에 (聽力障害) 관하여 (關)

조우제(Woo Je Cho)

Abstract

1. Audiometiric examination for 14 cases of retinal pigmentary degeneration revealed a case of conductive deafness, and 4 cases of perceptive hearing disturbances. 2. There were no complaints of subjective hearing disturbances among the cases of perceptive hearing impairments. 3. All the cases of perceptive hearing loss were thought to be due to cochlear lesion according to tone decay tests. 4. There were no cases accompanied by systemic or neuropsychiatric disorders among the 14 cases of retinal pegmentary degeneration. 5. It has been emphasized that pigmentery degeneration of the retina is frequently associated with perceptive hearing disturbances. Genetical and etiological discussions were tried for this association.